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Islington 1905

Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1905]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN—Table V.

Table H.

Metropolitan Borough of Islington.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. Deaths fromstated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.Certified185615436336124918865436248545552561,074
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..........1........I6346627
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria: Croup................................2
Whooping Cough..........7265625235851
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms..33I714722141517121410107149
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)....1..1131057631..23253
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh......111444............115
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth110141481461412................163
Congenital Defects1251119252111..........31
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast-milk1......112..................4
Atrophy, Debility. Marasmus2311108522226575644241138
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous MeningitisI......12....2..11324319
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..........154212312324
Other Tuberculous Diseases......111..5....2..11..112
Erysipelas......11......................1
Syphilisi22..553..................13
Rickets..........................1..23
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..........1..43..1125..219
Convulsions410622241121....14..238
Bronchitis....358159123287434277
Laryngitis..............1..........1..13
Pneumonia2331999119411911989107
S1111111uffocation, overlaying231..632..11114
Other Causes29101075685462735654111
Totals185615436336124918865436248545552561074

Births in the year
legitimate 8,529.
Iillegitimate 227
8,756
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 4,955
Population.
Estimated to middle of 1905.
342.994-